Kansai Electric Power will begin surveys for the construction of a new nuclear power reactor at its Mihama power station in ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is under increasing pressure to bow out after his party and junior coalition partner Komeito ...

Fears of a ‘far-right’ government have sparked an unlikely online campaign, even among political opponents, urging Shigeru ...

With the “Down with Ishiba” movement showing no signs of easing, the window for the prime minister to decide on his own is ...

July 26 marks 80 years since the 1945 Potsdam Declaration, in which the United States, Britain and China called on Japan to ...

This means that Ishiba no longer has easy control over the upper or lower houses of parliament; last October, the LDP lost ...

Trading volume in Japan’s power futures is set to climb as companies prepare for expiration of a key agreement between the ...

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Mr Kamiya’s Sanseito party has also drafted a new Japanese constitution, which would restore some of the emperor’s political ...

China has expanded its military presence —particularly its navy—across the Western Pacific in recent years, raising alarms ...

After months of fraught negotiations with the United States, Japan clinched a deal just days before punitive tariffs were scheduled to take effect.